Safety-pocket.



PATENTE!) APR. 30, 1907.

E. SHAW.

SAFETY POCKET.

APPLIOATION FILED 11:15.11. 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAFETY-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application mea rebrumy 11', 1907. serai No. 356,719.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR SHAW, of Swampscott, in the county of Essexand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Safety- Ifockets, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its obj ect to provide a garment pocket which canbe adjusted so that its contents cannot be removed without suchmanipulation of the pocket as will be sure to attract the attention ofthe wearer.

The invention consists in the improvement which I will now proceed todescribe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification,-Figure 1 repre-l sents a side elevation of a pocketembodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section on line 2 2 ofFig. 1. Fig.`3 represents a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the pocketadjusted to protect its contents.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

In the drawings, 12 and 13 represent the side pieces of a garmentpocket, the said pieces being stitched together along three edges of thepocket, and left open at the top edge to form the mouth of the pocket.The garment to which the pocket is attached is not shown in the figuresnow under consideration. The pocket may be attached to the garment inany suitable way.

In carrying out my invention, I stiffen one side of the ocket byapplying thereto a stiffening member 14, which may be of any suitablematerial, such as sheet metal preferably ja anned, vulcanized fiber,hard rubber, cellu oid, etc. In this embodiment of my invention, thestiffening member is narrower than the side of the pocket to which it isattached, and is located at the lower portion of said side. A roll ofbills or other article of value 15 inserted in the pocket beside thestiifening member 14 is protected by folding the pocket, as indicated 1nFig. 3, the fold being across the edge of the stiffening iece, which isthe u per edge when the poc ret is not folded. Wphen the pocket is ,in aportion of the garment that is in relatively close proximity to thewearers body, as is the case when the pocket is applied to a vest or apair of trousers, the pocket cannot be unfolded to permit the removal ofits contents without swinging the stiflfening piece 14 inwardly towardthe Wearers body, and thus creating such pressure that if attempted by apick pocket, the wearers attention will be inevitably attracted. Toadditionally secure the contents of the folded pocket, I attach a flap16 to the side piece 12, said flap being attached by a line of stitches17 or otherwise, along one edge immediately above the upper edge of thestiffening piece 14, the flap hanging down at one side of the stifleningpiece, and being wide enough to cover the latter. When the article 15isplaced in the ocket, it is interposed'between the flap 16 an thestiflening piece before the pocket is folded, the folding operationcausing the flap to extend under the lower edge of the article 15, asshown in Fig. 3, so that fingers 'inserted in the pocket will beprevented by the iiap from coming in contact with the article 15.

I claim:

1. A garment pocket having a stiifening member attached to the inner endportion of one of its sides, said member being narrower than the side towhich it is attached, so that the portion of the pocket having thestiffening member may be folded against the back of the other portion.

2. A garment pocket having a stiffening member attached to the inner endportion of one of its sides, said member being narrower than the side towhich it is attached, and a flap attached at one edge to the same sideabove the stiffening member, said flap having a free portion locatedbeside the stiii'ening member, and adapted to protect an articleinterposed between the stiffening member and flap, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have allixed my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

EDGAR SHAW.

I/Vitnesses:

C. F. BROWN, E. BATOHELDER.

